Japan Institute for National Fundamentals

2019.05.08 (Wed)

【#590】Japan with Imperial Fever Alone Could Be Ridiculed

May 7, 2019 　　　　　While the meaning of Japan’s new imperial era name “Reiwa” still remains controversial, I would like to leave experts to argue about it. Here, I would like to make two other point...

2019.04.10 (Wed)

【#585】Power Balance Changes Due to Decline of Europe

April 8, 2019 　　　　　Andrew Small, a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, has praised the European Union for being united against China’s economic offensive in Europe at i...

2019.03.28 (Thu)

【#581】G7 Divided over China’s BRI

March 25, 2019 　　　　　China’s attempt to include Europe into its Belt and Road Initiative to create a giant economic zone has apparently gained momentum. During a visit to Italy to launch a European...

2019.01.29 (Tue)

【#569】Japan-Russia Rapprochement Is Not Kids Game

January 28, 2019 　　　　　Japan-Russia peace treaty negotiations promoted by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe are reportedly based on an unprecedented strategic vision. In a recent speech at a think tank in ...

2018.12.25 (Tue)

【#564】2018 World Characterized by Offensive America and Defensive China

December 25, 2018 　　　　　Looking back international developments in the past year, the most significant movement affecting Japan’s fate might be that predictors of future U.S.-China relations have f...

2018.08.09 (Thu)

【#533】Famed U.S. Scholar Gives up on Maintaining International Order

August 6, 2018 　　　　　Graham Allison, a professor at Harvard University, is known as the proponent of the “Thucydides Trap” theory likening a confrontation between hegemonistic countries to the riva...

2018.08.01 (Wed)

【#531】Trump Is Right in Bashing Germany

July 30, 2018 　　　　　I never imagine that the Japanese nostalgically recall the Japan-Germany alliance during World War II. But not a small number of Japanese people favor Germany. While everyone is...

2018.07.18 (Wed)

【#529】Shock to NATO Likely to Spill over to Japan

July 17, 2018 　　　　　Hastings Ismay, chief military assistant to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during World War II and the first secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organizatio...

2018.05.30 (Wed)

【#516】U.S. Striking Counterblow against China

May 28, 2018 　　　　　Elizabeth Economy, director for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, a leading U.S. think tank, has contributed a persuasive essay to the May/June issue of Foreign A...

2018.04.25 (Wed)

【#509】Specter of Yoshida Doctrine is Haunting

April 23, 2018 　　　　　The specter of the so-called Yoshida doctrine is haunting in the Japanese political center of Nagata-cho. The doctrine, which called for a lightly armed, economically powerful ...